NewPenn22 was asking about a better place to go. Do you want an honest opinion or do you just want to hear nice things about YRC?
It's a sad fact that both YRC and the Teamster organization have both turned on their people (members and employees). I hate to see it happening, but it has. Fred Zuckerman said it all lately about the Teamsters under Hoffa. He said the Teamsters under the NMFA once numbered 400,000, but now, under Hoffa, Jr., they are just a shadow of what they once were, They now number only 75,000. Those numbers speak for themselves.The Teamsters as a whole, now have the lowest membership since since 1949 - 50. Something is very wrong, especially in the Freight Division.
As for Yellow - they changed everything about their company except for their management style and their inability to run a company. They changed the name to YRC. They changed the logo. They changed the color of the trucks. They changed their symbol on the stock exchange.
All in an attempt to clean up their image and bad reputation among the public, the customers, their employees and their stockholders. It didn't work. They are still the Cancer of the Industry and teetering on bankruptcy in spite of being one of the lowest paying trucking companies out there.
Those that can leave are leaving. Finding new, qualified people to hire is next to impossible Even the middle managers are leaving.
Those are the ugly facts. ABFer was simply using logic in his opinion to NewPenn22. If a driver is young enough and can do it - why not start fresh somewhere else - even if it IS a non-union company. YRC, the Teamsters and the CSPF certainly don't have much to offer anymore.You can sugarcoat crap, but that does not change the fact that it's still crap on the inside. The IBT and YRCW have created this, not the members or the employees.